ABSTRACT
What is being arranged in Washington these days is really a gigantic experiment in internationalism. For the first time in history the food supply, the shipping, the credit, and the man-power of the nations are to be put under something like joint administration. This is the birth of the League of Nations. It is being formed not out of paper schemes imposed upon the peoples but out of the pooling of economic, political and military interests. It is on a basis of shipping, food, naval control, finance, and a joint military strategy that the substance of the league is being brought into existence. For that impulse to unity which common perils and common necessities have forged is beginning to demand some community of political forms in the constituent nations. Just because the hope of internationalism is so much brighter than ever, so the danger of a Central Europe dominated by the Prussian autocracy has become more intolerable.
